The Sessions Stencil Art Project was a new initiative that GreenRoom decided to create for the brand new music season at Adelaide Festival Centre, titled Sessions. You can learn more about Sessions and the great acts that the Space will play host to from 6-21 January here.
In collaboration with acclaimed Adelaide stencil artist and Espionage Gallery Owner, Joshua Smith, we set out with an aim of creating a colossal stencil art work on a large wooden board entrance. This will create a point of entrance for the hundreds of punters to flow through in January for the Sessions music season. We recruited 5 young and dedicated visual artists (Ebony Obst, Elita A’Vard, Nicnic Ansell, Kat Coppock and Ali Brown) who all came from varying disciplines within the visual art field and had years of passion, creativity and knowledge to share with Josh and vice versa.
The creation of the entrance was broken into various parts which included creative briefing, brainstorming, stencil cutting and finally, stencil painting.
Our crew at GreenRoom and the Sessions team were blown away by the fantastic ideas, talent and dedication that was exhibited by all of the artists involved and we hope that we can host many more workshops that can continue to foster ideas into realities.
If you are keen to see the finished stencil art entrance, wander down to the Space Theatre come January 6-21. You will not be disappointed, we promise.
Similarly, if you are interested in learning more about how stencils are created or what stencil art can look like, we encourage you to take the time to visit Joshua Smith’s Espionage Gallery which is located down the alleyway directly across from Body Shop in Rundle Mall. Josh is incredibly detailed with his work and his day to day conversation about stencil art is just as focused. So head over to this local gallery and engage with some great art.
